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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!news2.interlog.com!winternet.com!washington.Capitol.Net!news1.erols.com!news.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!ulowell.uml.edu!news.cs.umb.edu!mi From: mi@cs.umb.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /etc/exports problem Date: 4 Apr 1996 17:33:40 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4k115k$n9@news.cs.umb.edu> References: <4jnam2$f34@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eris.cs.umb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (1 Apr 1996 01:14:42 GMT) honorable David E. O'Brien, residing at obrien@Nuxi.com wrote: |I'm having a real problem with /etc/exports. I can export some things, but |not others. Even with I use the same EXACT syntax. What in the world am I |doing wrong? You have to specify _mount points of your local filesystems_ Subdirectories will not work. ALso, AFAIU, to change a configuration (add-remove FS) you need to unmount/mount the FS. If you want to start (stop) exporting /usr, for instance, you'll need to reboot (or shutdown). (I'll be glad to know, I'm wrong here) -mi